wilderness – watch this space…
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
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Greetings Dear Maggie:
As a fellow spiritual traveler, may I commend to you my book, Master of the Jinn: A Sufi Novel. It has been translated and published in Russia, and will soon be translated and published in Indonesia, into Bahasa, the national language.
What an interesting blog
You can view the book and read an excerpt at http://www.masterofthejinn.com
Please pass on the link to anyone you think might be interested.
In the Name of the Most Merciful, 10% of all profits go to charity.
Peace and Blessings,
Irving
Traveller
I have travelled
where the wild orchid blooms
glorious in the crimson desert dawn
Life in the lifeless sand
beauty for no one
for no one to look upon
I have heard a storm in the east
the tumult of a mighty throng
like locusts blotting out the sun
bringing beauty for no one
for no one to willingly look upon
I have walked the alleys of a shanty town
where young lovers work for eighty pence a day
and fear for their baby to be born
into life in designer label land
having beauty for no one
for no one to joyfully look upon
I have stood within a London clinic
where a healthy foetus lies dead on a table
and a husband assures his wife it wasn’t wrong
as they prepare to leave
for life in ordered suburbia
leaving beauty for no one
for no one to dare look upon
I have worshipped in a crowded Scottish church
said ‘Amen’with the prayer
listened to the sermon
delighted in the song
and then shut out
from life in the days until Sunday
displaying beauty for no one
for no one to openly look upon
I have talked with a man on the road
in metaphor and beatitude
‘Listen’ He said
‘The open road is the metaphor
and the beat is the human heart
beating out the beatitude’
‘Listen’ He said
‘Evil is strong
I have heard one million hearts
break as one
but trust in this
like darkness meeting light
Evil will perish
Good will come
Life will reign’
‘Listen’ He said
‘widows weep no more
except to weep for joy
here comes your husbands with their Lord
and the eldest is like a boy
and the eldest is like a boy
bringing beauty for everyone
for everyone in wonder to look upon’
Jimmy